STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 39, sig. 109-1/44

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As the majority of the communities have already reached the dead point, it must be described as an immediate task to give them some relief already today. 3./Occupation: Members of imprisoned persons were paid in the month of September over 39,000.-RM. In the field of special allowances for children's families, 7,746 notifications have so far been received, of which 2,900 have been paid. 4./ Health-WOOM has not been of fundamental importance in medical administration matters during the period under review. Specially scarlet and diphtheria are increasing in excess. In the last 4 weeks 1 620 scarlet- and I375 diphthria diseases have been reported. The control of the epidemics results in the greatest difficulties, e.g. in prophylaxis as well as in the care of the sick. The latter is only possible through the opening of further auxiliary hospitals, whereby objects which cannot be described as necessarily impeccable have already to be accessed. The disease prevention is very difficult due to a considerable shortage of vaccines, especially in diphtheria. A further increase in the number of diseases in the month of November is to be expected with great truth. 5./ Veterinarian diseases have experienced a certain intensification in the reporting system. In particular, foot-and-mouth disease is increasing in spread.